Dude, Where’s My Flying Car?

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

For no particular reason, the Remnant returns to an in-person format today, as Jonah drops by the AEI offices to chat about what the future holds for humans and technology with James “Jimmy P” Pethokoukis. Together, they explore why we still haven’t achieved some of the major advancements that wonks were predicting in the ‘70s, occasionally stopping to ponder the merits of popular sci-fi television shows. AI, fusion power, and space elevators are all discussed, but by the end of it all, an important question still hasn’t received enough attention: Will highly intelligent, taxi-driving super-apes eventually overthrow mankind?

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.4	Ladies and gentlemen
0:16.4	Can I please have your attention
0:27.7	Greetings your listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg host of the Remnant podcast brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch media
0:33.0	This is very exciting day for me. I am back in the
0:37.5	capacious
0:38.7	Byzantine
0:39.7	AEI studio I have not been here in studio with a flesh and blood guest. I
0:46.6	don't know since
0:49.6	Brontis Sorai roamed the earth and I'm very excited to have my friend and colleague
0:56.2	At the American Enterprise Institute the author of the faster please sub-stack newsletter which you really should check out
1:04.0	One James
1:05.8	At the cuckus we call him Jimmy P mostly behind his back James welcome back to the Remnant Jonah
1:12.0	Delighted to be back on run and as you said in person
1:16.0	And I mean this way we can really just crank up the witty batonage to like 11
1:22.6	It's a word to begin why don't we begin with your I believe it's your latest one where you
1:30.1	Take a
1:31.6	Take umbridge a little I think that's fair to say
1:34.4	At something that as recline has been talking about and writing about why don't you just sort of explain?
1:40.7	Well as recline New York Times columnist and and some other sort of left-of-setter pundits
1:49.2	very excited about the the Biden agenda and infrastructure and
1:55.0	Building funding clean energy and building, you know clean energy infrastructure and then they realized that
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